I really cannot ship either one of them with anyone else ever. Like, I enjoy the Spike/Dru dynamic in S2, but if the fic is set post-S4ish, it's only these two for each other. The end. Period.

Hey! Ms. Academic-Buffy-Writer! You can answer a question for me! Have any of the texts you've been reading explore the idea of Slaying as women's work? Because there should be an essay about that. Other than the ridiculous rant I just wrote on my tumblr.